Simone received a Ph.D in Computational Economics from the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex, UK. His fields of interest are Financial Networks, Financial Stability and Systemic Risk, Agent-Based Computational Economics, High Frequency Finance and Real Time Trading Algorithms. He is Research Assistant at the Economics Department, University of Essex a Research Fellow at the Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development (DEPFID). Simone is also co-founder of ACEFinMod project.
Simone is a JOB MARKET CANDIDATE 2009/2010.

Education

- Ph.D in Computational Economics, Essex (CCFEA)
- Participant of 2006 SFI Summer School, Santa Fe Institute (July 2006)
- Laurea in Economics, "G.d'A." University (2003)

Work Experience

- PhD Intern and Consultant at the Bank of England, 2007 - 2008
- Research Fellow at DEPFID , University of Siena (April 2007 - Present)
- Part-time Lecturer in Computational Economics at CCFEA , University of Essex (2006 - 2009)
- GTA in Agent-Based Models at CCFEA , University of Essex (2006 - 2009)
- Coordinator of LabSEC, CSC ., University of Siena (Oct 2004 - Present)
- Research Assistant, LARAL , ISTC-CNR Rome (2004 - 2007)
- Visiting Scholar, QFRC, University of Technology Sydney (Aug-Sep 2004)
- Part-time Lecturer of I.T. Systems, "G.d'A." University (2004)